I have recently switched to urxvt from xterm for better unicode support and it does much better as to the font fallback.
However I find an interesting issue: names of files and folders are rendered ...

If I log on from a RHEL 6.5/GNOME notebook via SSH using gnome-terminal to an OpenBSD install, the UTF-8 support is OK.
But if I use OpenBSD / fvwm2 / xterm locally, not via SSH, then it just misses ...

I have a very long text file in french language that I need to clean up. The non ASCII characters have been replaced by combination of odd characters. As an example, the following content :
passer de ...

The glyph ಠ comes from the alphabet of Kannada, a language which I do not speak, and if it weren't for the Internet as it exists, I wouldn't care to have any of its glyphs.
I recently discovered that ...

I'm currently having an annoying issue with the latest version of Skype 4.3.0.37 (installed from the RPM on a 64bit machine following the official documentation). For some unknown to me reason, I'm ...

I copied some math formulas into some files under gedit, using the default settings of gedit
from websites, such as math.stackexchange.com, wikipedia, ...
When I open the files now under emacs, the ...

I want to be able to SSH to a remote host and restore a screen session with one command. Both hosts use UTF-8 locale. My problem is that then, inside the screen session, characters are encoded twice.
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I'm trying to copy the Documents and Settings folder of a Windows XP system over to an NTFS external disk using a USB Live of Puppy Linux.
I encountered am encoding problem for namefiles in which the ...

I'd like to use a truetype font in xterm/uxterm (version 278) but I get problems with unicode symbols (é for example displays fine, so I guess it's not a disabled utf8 or a locale issue):
$ echo -e ...

I live in Poland, and we have some accented characters - ąćęłńóśźż. Due to various reasons I resurrected "talk" usage on my server, which works great, but I wasn't able to figure out how to make it ...

I'm trying to use the tr command from the Heirloom Toolchest to overcome a current limitation of the coreutils implementation, so as to be able to "pump" (with the -dc options) multibyte characters ...

Unfortunately seems like tcpdump is not capable of detecting and displaying Unicode-encoded text (specifically utf-8) in captures. It treats unicode text like regular binary data and displays it in ...

I'm currently fiddling around with a dying harddisk, and while trying to cp data from it, I get errors like
cp: error reading ‘brokenFile’: Input/output error
# comparison: backtick: `, apostrophe '
...

I'm trying to solve this problem for sometime. In the title bar of my web browsers and places like that; If there is a Farsi (Persian) string, it is shown like **** or something similar.
I searched ...

I am on a minimal debian testing install. I've set up rxvt-unicode, herbstluftwm, and SLiM.
With my username, after SLiM logs me in, all of the urxvt terminal instances i start lack unicode support. ...

When using the interactive mode of the restore utility to restore backups made with dump UTF-8-encoded filenames doesn't display correctly, see example below. The ??s should be ös ...
$ sudo restore ...

I use the Terminator terminal emulator, and out of pure boredom, I installed and attempted to run this program: https://github.com/thiderman/doge
However, it requires UTF-8 encoding to work. I opened ...

Note: forked of this per recommendation here.
While I got the X keyboard layout right on my own after I fixed that stupid typo, I still can't set the console charset, key map, font map, or whatever ...

Note: The real problems behind this are presented here, as per a recommendation on meta. This question should be closed as a non-reproducible off-topic because its main problem is solved by correcting ...

It's possible to configure a banner for sshd that is to be displayed as a connection is opened, via Banner /etc/motd.ssh in sshd_config. Note that this is displayed before the authentication occurs, ...